Random price comparo: 677 Prime vs. Jack’s Oyster House

Prowling around menus online I came across the following, which I admit to finding surprising:

As a commenter below notes, 677 Prime’s steak is a la carte — it basically comes only with, as I recall, a small stuffed roasted tomato. Although this is not clear from Jack’s menu, the steak price there includes salad, starch and vegetables.

I think it depends on where they get it their meats…are they using NYS farms that are using biodynamic farming? How do they treat their cows? I hope these restaurants are creating partnerships with small, local, sustainable farms that treat their cows well, raising them naturally without any hormones, antibiotics or chemically processed foods. You can definitely taste the difference in the cuts of meats between natural, grass fed and the mass produced, slaughter house cut.

I would a little bit more for the natural, grass fed..but if they are both just USDA Prime Slaughterhouse…I will be avoiding them both.

Thanks bocuse..although I see I completely forgot words..but you guys get the gist..

I really am supporting places like Beekman, Church and Main, Cella, Hattie’s..they support local farms, organic, sustainable farming techniques, these are places that are healthier for their consumers and ultimately the environment…

After hearing the latest issue with beef on NPR, without warning about the horrific details on the treatment of these poor animals, I’m absolutely thinking about locally raised beef and buffalo. I’m no food fussy, however, this really made me think about us as consumers. I’ll pay more, but I think about the people who can’t. Where does that leave all of us as consumers in this country? I do enjoy a thick New York strip, but at what cost to those animals treated in this way without intervention. This is such a problem for me because I enjoy beef on occasion, but hate thinking my moment’s pleasure comes at such great cost for the sad animal that meets a very inhumane means of death. I know the real cost for eating other animals, so I don’t have this issue with that – it’s just how the animals that are “processed” for our consumption that really pisses me off. I know no solutions, but that said, maybe I should give up beef because I can’t justify it. This is an issue to ponder.

Lets do some Math. We need to compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges. Prime 677, 16 oz steak for $41 = $2.56/oz. Jacks, 14 oz steak for $49.99 = $3.57/oz. Jacks does include a vegetable and starch, but if you figure you get 2 additional ounces of steak at Prime 677, that would cost and extra $7.14 at Jacks(assuming same cost for additional 2 ounces)for a total of $57.13. I guess what I am saying is for an additional $6 for a potato and $7 for a vegetable at Prime 677, I still think you are getting a better bargain at Prime 677. Plus, Prime 677 and Jacks aren’t even in the same ballpark when it comes to steak, as far as I’m concerned. Prime 677 blows Jacks out of the water and is truly a NYC style steak house. Plus, the wine list at Prime is truly amazing. Well, that my $0.02 worth!!